Our Mission
Rise with Resilience is a personal development company that combines self-esteem and body image work with fitness. We are a unique experience that offers a safe space where people from all backgrounds can move their bodies in a judgment free zone. By focusing on how movement makes us feel, we create space for joy, for fun, and for confidence to RISE! In our programs we are constantly moving our bodies, cultivating our minds, improving our physical and mental health, shifting our mindset from how we look to how good moving our bodies is for us, and most importantly we’re having a good time!
Weight, height, age, gender identity, race; these are only some of the numerous ways you might feel at odds with your body, and the fitness industry and diet industries certainly don’t help. Bodies change, bodies fluctuate. We go through tough times. We are constantly faced with adversity, discrimination. But guess what… we are RESILIENT.
This is your time to celebrate all that you have been through and indulge in fitness that is empowering. You deserve it.
Meet the team
Jenni Morse - Founder
Hi there! My name is Jenni, and I started Rise with Resilience with the mission of making body image issues no longer hold women back from living their true, authentic lives. Over the course of my career I received extensive training in dance from notable organizations including the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and The Merce Cunningham Trust. Having spent 10 years touring Canada and the United States with numerous professional dance companies, I know firsthand how mentally draining it is to constantly critique my body, other peoples bodies, and have my body be critiqued by the masses as well. I was in an industry where bodies are constantly scrutinized, judged, and compared, and I had always found it hard to find a community that was body neutral – so I created that community myself! Fitness has always been my own personal source of empowerment, so now I aim to heal others' negative body image through movement, because (and as I always tell my clients) fitness is fun, and fitness feels good!
Since propelling myself into the fitness industry in 2013, I have hosted numerous Zumba Fitness parties and fundraisers, taught at several of Montreal’s most popular fitness clubs, dabbled in gym management, and helped countless women to feel strong, fit, and confident, both online and in person! I am a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor, and have specializations in yoga, Zumba, and spinning. But my main passion with my work is to help women feel good about themselves and good in their bodies.
My work with Rise with Resilience has taken me many places, but currently my focus is on offering body image workshops for businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations in Ontario and Quebec.
Caileigh Suline
Caileigh Suline grew up in Toronto and danced competitively for 10 years, from the age of 8 -18. She attended Etobicoke School of the Arts as a dance major and film minor, and was a company member at Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre for 2 years. She went on to complete a Bachelor of the Arts in Contemporary Dance at London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. Followed by a year of further training in the UK in a post-graduate company entitled JV2 (Jasmin Vardimon 2). Since moving back to Toronto she has been teaching dance to adults with disabilities through another organization. She has also been developing her own movement style to eventually teach to others - this being a combination of hip hop, contemporary and floor work. She is thrilled to be collaborating with an old friend Jenni Morse and bring her own experience and expertise to Rise with Resilience workshops to help even more people finally feel good in their bodies!
Lourdes Diaz
Lourdes is a Guatemalan born and raised, and became a Rise with Resilience team member in 2022. She went to law school in one of the private universities of Guatemala. Like many, she had to work to be able to pay for her studies and that's how she became a freelance digital marketing specialist and never looked back.
Lourdes helps us out with marketing and admin work but she also shares a love for exercising and is an avid hiker and camper who loves to explore the volcanoes and mountains near her.